Mark, challenge experiemnts have been done and the efficacies you post I don't think are too far off from such data that I've seen. There's a reason why almost all the alerts from almost all states here in the NE have been suggesting Daconil alternating with a copper product, b'c Daconil is known to be highly preventive. No product is 100% effective, as you know. Unless it's known that a specific disease is in the specific area where one garedens one can spray anything and conclude it worked, same as folks using eggshells and claiming that they prevent BER. I don't think your first picture indicated LB at all and right now I forget the second picture. LOL One of the prime sources of LB in the past has been just East of you in potato country where potato cull piles have been the source of LB. but you'd need easterly winds to get the highest exposure and where you and I live the winds are westerly. You mentioed Bravo, but in NYS that can only be sold to commercial farmers with a pesticide license. Same for Tatoo, and both are Daconil at a higher concentration and there are some other products that also can be used only by those with pesticide licenses. Can an LB infected plant survive the infection? To date I've had no personal experience with that but everything I've read says no, it's lethal. If you find anything to the contrary on the net, please share that with us. Is that Gold Fleck on your Dix Doight de Naples fruits? it sure looks like it rather than being stinkbug bites. Carolyn

OK, here's something to make you feel better when doing the repair: Where ever you can, underneath the paint, behind the baseboard dutchman, etc. Write your name, the date and a little story about the doggie who dun it. Maybe a little cartoon. Someday, someone will turn up your message and it will be one of those things that makes the house live for them. I hope no one takes this amiss, but on Sept. 11th I was rehanging a built-in cupboard in the pantry in my Virginia house. After I couldn't watch TV anymore, I made myself take up something constructive. But before I screwed those pieces back to the wall, I wrote on the back, what day it was and what I felt and what I was worried about and why and signed my name. It helped me a bit, but also left something for someone else to know, firsthand, how it was on that awful day.

An inviting recluse of shady trees and trickle of cool water on a warm day. Very nice. Your second one reminds me, as I sit inside waiting for an ice storm to go and come (second one is on the way) that we yearn for what we don't have. By the dog days of next summer, I'll be sweatily looking forward to an icy blast to arrive - but, not today. Thanks for reminding me of what I can look forward to. I feel a little warmer already.

Great company. Fine product. The best in the business. Michael